Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Lesson Planning for Preschool-Aged Norwegian Class

Since last October, I have been teaching Norwegian to a 4-year-old girl over Skype.  Here is an overview of my lessons with her.  I will be going into detail for each one in later blog posts, and chronicling my lessons from here on out in blog posts as well.

September 30 & October 1, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • "Per Sjuspring" song
  • Numbers using Min Første Ordbok
  • Colors using Farger book that they have
 October 7 & 8, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Den Lille Larven Aldrimett)
  • Sequencing pieces for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Butterfly life cycle pieces in Norwegian
  • Calendar and weather pieces to set up a calendar bulletin board
  • Clothing and weather using Min Store Ordbok
  • Fall song
October 14 & 15, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Body parts using labels on a silhouette
  • "Hode, Skulder, Kne og Tå" song
  •  Body parts using Min Store Ordbok
  • Body parts using Roll-A-Monster
October 21 & 22, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Farm animals using a book they have
  • Farm animals using the Norwegian version of Big Red Barn
  • "Bæ, bæ, lille lam" song ("Baa, baa, black sheep")
  • "Per Olsen hadde en bondegård" song ("Old MacDonald")
November 26 & 27, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Thanksgiving plate craftivity
  • Thanksgiving foods
  • What I'm thankful for
  • Setting the table
December 2 & 3, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • What to wear in the snow
  • Winter wear vocabulary cards
  • Winter wear in Min Første Ordbok
  • Freddy the Frog story (Freddy Frosk)
December 9 & 10, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Winter words
  • Christmas matching game
December 16 & 17, 2013 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Christmas verbs
January 6 & 7, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • "Å jul med din glede" song ("O Christmas with your joy")
  • Nativity story & pieces from the Bible
January 13 & 14, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Sami video
  • Label the reindeer
  • Make your own reindeer
January 20 & 21, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Polar bears & other arctic animals word wall
  • Label the polar bear
  • Polar Bear on the Go book
  • "Bjørnen Sover" song ("The Bear Sleeps")
January 27 & 28, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Da snøen kom (The Snowy Day in Norwegian)
 February 24 & 25, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Hot chocolate category sorting game
March 31 & April 1, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Fairies theme
  • Building a fairy house (house part vocabulary)
  • Making a flower wreath (art vocabulary)
  • Label the fairy
April 14 & 15, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Religious Easter vocabulary
  • Easter egg Bible story hunt
  • Paper plate tomb
April 28 & 29, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Princess theme
  • Medieval words
  • Add/subtract the dragons
  • Label the castle
  • Cookie tea party
May 5 & 6, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Norway vocabulary
  • Symbols of Norway
  • May 17th coloring sheet
  • May 17th barnehage book
May 12 & 13, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Norway's Constitution Day theme
  • Mina og Løven book
May 26 & 27, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Beach theme
  • Beach vocabulary
  • Beach bingo
June 3, 2014 (one hour lesson)
  • Ocean animals
  • Ocean toob from Safari Ltd
  • Wild Republic Itsy Bitsies Aquatic pink bucket animals
  • Ocean animals memory game
  • Ocean depth "submarine dive"
June 8 & 9, 2014 (1/2 hour each day)
  • Summer theme
  • "Sommer kommer" song ("Summer comes")
  • Adding soap bubbles
  • Which is different?
  • Patterning
June 16, 2014 (one hour lesson)
  • Airplane travel
  • Label an airplane
  • Looking at toy airplanes
  • Sequencing a plane trip
  • Airport vocabulary
  • Putting suitcases in order from smallest to largest
I probably am forgetting some themes for some weeks, so I will add more as I find them in my files.  Most of the time, we did 1/2 hour lesson twice a week, but sometimes we did a 1 hour lesson once a week.